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The former billionaire, who inherited a coal mining business from his father, presides over a state where 29% of residents are on Medicaid

When Senator Jim Justice of West Virginia was asked about the Senate Republicans' newly released portion of the proposed spending bill that requires parents of children older than 14 to work for Medicaid, he said, "biblically, we are supposed to work."

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Maybe a religious text isn't a good basis for a government

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I guess you don't know your history very well...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm not saying it's not used as the basis for many governments, I'm saying it's not a good one

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

again history proves you wrong, how can you be so deliberately stubborn?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So you're saying that it actually is a good basis for government? Or are you saying it's not used? either way, you're incorrect

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Would you mind sharing with us how that history played out?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you take even a few minutes to check you'll find that most governments older than 300 years were founded on a religious basis, and Rome was a pretty long running empire that was largely based on religion just as one example.

The modern drive for secularism is an outlier in human history, and according to the way the world looks now, secularism is on the way out.

I'm not saying I like the direction its going but there are pretty clear warnings that conservative evagelicalism is becoming as culturally foundational as a thing can be in the coming fascist regime.

You have this smug attitude that stems from your ideological values, and somehow feel saying things like 'religion bad mmmkay' is sufficient to turn the world away from the coming regressive religious dark age.

But it isn't, and really just makes you look foolish.

Humans have a hole in their brains in the shape of rituals and shared language that we neglect because 'religion just the opiate of the masses amirite?' and now you are seeing the pendulum swing back.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

That was not an answer to my question.